Galeria Francisco Fino is delighted to announce Em Frente da Porta do Lado de Fora, Pedro Paiva’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, opening 19 March at 10 PM. "In the play, Beckmann, the scarecrow-man who «returns to Germany» after the war, is the affirmative and paradoxical centre that absorbs all other figures (because everything takes place in the deepest depths of his oneiric consciousness), from the most pedestrian to the most transcendent. These include the «Street Sweeper», who represents Death (who had once also been the «General» and is now the inseparable and unavoidable companion of those who see no sense in an outer and inner world of rubble) seeking an escape in the waters of the Elbe from whose embrace it is reborn to pursue a post-mortem dialogue of the deaf; or the «Old Man», who embodies a useless, mute God, that everyone since Nietzsche knew «is dead»." — João Barrento